Psalm 37:1-2 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)


As long as the world as we know it exists, and humans still live on the planet earth, evil will always exist. For we humans are all born into this world with sin natures, in the image of Adam who was the first man God created and the first man to sin against God. Only by the grace of God, by faith in Jesus Christ, can any of us be delivered from our slavery (addiction) to sin and now serve God with our lives in walks of obedience to his commands.

So when those who make sin their practice, who do evil by habit, do evil to us or to others, we are not to fret over it. We are not to burn with anger and want revenge. We are not to be consumed with fear, hatred, worry, incense, envy, bitterness, and/or resentment. But we should pray for the wicked to turn their hearts to Christ, and we should trust the Lord with our lives. For one day all evil and evildoers will be no more, when God comes to judge.

Psalm 37:3-4 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)


So, we should pray for those who make sin their practice that they will one day turn their hearts to Christ. Then we should commit our way to the Lord, and we should do the good that God has planned for us to do. And this includes loving our enemies and those who do evil against us, praying for them, forgiving them, doing good to them, and speaking the truth of God’s word to all who will listen. We return hate with love and with forgiveness.

And then we need to focus our attention on what God has for us to do as his followers. We must be those who are faithful to the Lord and to his service, who follow our Lord wherever he leads us in doing all that he calls and equips us to do for his praise, honor, and glory, and for the salvation of human lives. We must put God/Christ first in our lives, always committing all of our ways to him, trusting him with our circumstances, resting in him.

Psalm 37:5-6 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)


So, if our lives are committed to the ways of the Lord, he should be first place in our lives. His will and purpose for our lives should be our top priority. We should be seeking his face in order to know and to do his will that he has for our lives. And then we must obey what the Lord has for us to do, all in his power, under his leading and direction. And then we must trust him with the results, even when it may appear like nothing is happening.

And even if we are slandered, falsely accused, mistreated, snubbed, rejected, and cast aside as unwanted because we serve the Lord Jesus with our lives, we are not to be discouraged. We are not to let that dishearten us. But we must keep pressing forward in the will of God in doing what he has called us to do, trusting him to work it all out for good. And then we should leave our reputations in his hands and keep on keeping on in his service.

Psalm 37:7 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)


If God has called us to his service, he will equip us to do his work and his will his way. Our job is to follow him wherever he leads us in doing whatever he has called us to do, and then to leave the results to him. For it may look to us as though nothing is happening, or as though we are not making a difference, but all the while God is using us in other people’s lives in ways we don’t even know about. So we can’t judge by outward appearances only.

For example, we may be writing what the Lord is giving us to write each day and to post it on the internet, but we may be getting very few responses. And so we may presume that we are not making a difference. But then if we could look at our statistics, and this is just one example, we may learn that hundreds or even thousands of people may be viewing what we write and post each day, or it may be just one. Then we realize that God is using us.

Commit Your Way to The Lord
An Original Work / July 28, 2026
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Be Still

Based off Psalm 37 and 46
An Original Work / February 29, 2012
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

God’s our refuge and our strength,
An ever-present help in trouble.
Therefore we will not fear,
Though the mountains fall into the sea.
The Lord Almighty is with us;
God of Jacob is our fortress.
“Be still, and know that I am God;
Exalted I’ll be.”

Trust in the Lord and do good;
And delight yourself in the Lord,
And He will give you your heart’s desires.
Commit your way to the Lord.
Trust in Him and He will do this:
He will make your righteousness shine
Like the dawn, the justice of your
Cause – the noon-day sun.

Be still before the Lord,
And wait patiently for Him; do not fear.
Fretting only leads to evil.
Put your hope in Jesus Christ.
If the Lord delights in your way,
He makes your steps firm and steady.
The Lord upholds you with His hand,
So you will not fall.

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Good morning, afternoon or evening! (Wherever you are in the world.) How is everyone doing? Hope everyone's doing good. So, I had a dream or a vision inside of my dream. I'm not sure if I should describe it at all. Or maybe I'm supposed to? I am wondering if it's a possible sign from God?

Also I'm hoping it's okay to post on this thread, I wasn't sure where to go because there's so many. Lol

The story of the priest who turned the cave-dwellings of Guadix into classrooms, and meekness into a path to holiness.

Did you know that a Spanish priest spent years descending into inhabited caves to teach children who had never seen a school how to read? This is the story of Saint Pedro Poveda Castroverde (1874–1936): born in Linares, formed in Jaén and Guadix, founder of the Teresian Association, and martyr of the religious persecution of 1936 in Madrid. His story runs through the lead mines of Jaén, the mist of Covadonga, and classrooms across Spain, up to the early morning when he gave his life without hiding who he was.

In this video you'll discover:
How his vocation was born among the lead mines of Linares, in 1874.
Why he went to live among the poor in the cave-dwellings of Guadix, and what school he founded there.
How, in the silence of Covadonga, he shaped the Teresian Association by entrusting his mission to young women.
What words he spoke, without fear, in the early morning of his martyrdom, on July 28, 1936.

The life of Pedro Poveda is not only a chapter in the history of Spain: it is a testimony that education, lived as a form of charity, can transform the most forgotten people. His canonization in 2003, in the very Madrid where he had once been arrested, closed a circle that had begun in a forgotten cave on the Guadix plateau. We invite you to discover his full story.

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Psalm 36:1-4 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)


Your Way or God’s Way?

Before I got to this passage of Scripture this morning, the Lord put in my mind the lyrics to a secular song titled, “My Way.” The lyrics fit this passage of Scripture. For, repeated over and over again throughout the song are the words, “I did it my way.” The person said, “I planned each charted course, each careful step along the byway.” Then, “For what is a man what has he got if not himself then he has not to say the things he truly feels and not the words of one who kneels.” To me, this sounds like a rejection of God.

So, when the Scripture above speaks of a person in these terms, “There is no fear of God before his eyes,” that is the description given in this song, I believe. For this is a person who rejects the ways of God, who does not submit (kneel) to God and to his commands, nor does he feel any obligation to do so. He is self-made, not that he created himself, for we are all created by God, but that his dependency is not in the Lord but in himself. And he takes all the credit for his own accomplishments. He said, “I did it my way.”

Who are The Wicked?

Now, who are the wicked? They are not only those who make no profession of faith in Jesus Christ, but they are many who give lip service to God but whose hearts are far from God. Although outwardly they may give the appearance of being people of faith, still they are the ones running their own lives, making their own choices, choosing their own paths. Even though they know right from wrong, they will choose to do wrong whenever their flesh is able to persuade them to do so, regardless of who gets hurt in the process.

And that goes along with verse 2 which says, “His eyes are too full of conceit to detect or hate his own sin.” For this is someone who sins deliberately and habitually without conscience and without regard for who gets hurt in the process. For this person is thinking only of himself (or herself) and what he wants out of it and of how it will bring him pleasure. And this is someone who can remain on this course for a very long time and still keep feeding his (or her) own flesh while ignoring God and his commands for selfish reasons.

Sinning in Secret

Then, when this says that the “words of his mouth are wicked and deceitful,” I see this as describing someone who is addicted to sin but who wants to hide that knowledge from others. And so he may put on a show of godliness or righteousness, or he may put on a performance that would lead others to think differently of him than who he truly is in order to hide what he is doing in the darkness when no one else can see. So, in essence, he would be a hypocrite who gives an appearance contrary to how he is living, in truth.

Now, if you look up the word “bed” in a thesaurus, one of the meanings has to do with having sex with someone. So, this could be taken in that direction, that the wickedness being plotted has to do with sexual sin, sexual immorality, idolatry, and adultery. And, as we must all realize, this doesn’t have to be a physical act with another human being, but it can be all in one’s own mind, and/or it can be via the viewing of porn, and included in that self-gratification. For this is definitely a “path that is not good.” It is selfish!

Facing the Final Curtain

Then, going back to the song lyrics (a song by Gilles Thibaut, Claude Francols, Jacques Revaux, and Paul Anka), it begins with “And now, the end is near, and so I face the final curtain.” Well, I believe this was about Frank Sinatra ending his music career, but in light of this passage of Scripture and of other Scriptures, this is the ultimate end of those for whom sin is their practice, for they did life their way and not God’s way. Biblically speaking, their destiny is hell, and not heaven, because they did life their way.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 12:1-2; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; 2 Corinthians 5:10,15,21; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:19-39; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]

Your Way or God’s Way?
An Original Work / July 28, 2026
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Give Ear to Jesus

Based off Isaiah 55
An Original Work / February 16, 2016
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Call on your Savior. Seek the Lord while He is near.
Let the wicked forsake his way; Turn to the Lord.
God will have mercy. He’ll forgive you of your sin.
He will freely pardon you and give peace within.
Turn from your sin, follow Jesus, be cleansed from sin.

Give ear to Jesus. Come to Him. Your soul will live.
Listen to Him speaking to you: “Eat what is good.”
If you are thirsty, come to Jesus, drink from Him.
Drink His Spirit given to you. Be born again.
Listen to Him. Do what He says. Rejoice in Him.

God’s Word, eternal, will achieve what He desires.
He is willing none should perish, saved by His blood.
Share now the gospel. Jesus died so we’d go free.
Walk in vict’ry, free from your sin, eternally.
Die to sin, and live to Jesus. In Him believe.

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Psalm 15:1-5 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)


The Tent of The Lord

What is the “tent” of the Lord being spoken of here? Not every translation uses the word “tent,” but it means tent, dwelling place, home, tabernacle, and/or covering. So, where is the Lord’s dwelling place? Well, God lives in heaven, but he also dwells in human hearts via the Holy Spirit. The Biblical body of Christ, of those who by faith in Jesus Christ have died to sin and who are obeying his commands, in practice, are the church in whom God dwells by his Spirit. We are the tabernacle of God. We are the temple of God.

So, what are God’s requirements for us to abide (to live, to dwell) in his temple? Under the New Covenant they are that we must believe in Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, conceived of the Spirit, born of a virgin, who was fully God and fully man (God incarnate) when he lived on the earth. He who was not born into sin, and who never sinned, shed his blood for us on a cross in order to put our sins to death with him, that by faith in him we will die to sin and obey our Lord’s commands in practice.

So, where does this faith come from? It comes from God. It is authored and perfected by Jesus Christ. It is gifted to us by God, and it is persuaded of God as to his holiness and righteousness, and of our sinfulness, and of our need to deny self, die to sin, and obey our Lord and his commands as a matter of life practice. This faith does not originate with our human flesh, and therefore we do not get to define it or determine what it looks like. But it is not lip service only. It is what the Scriptures teach that it is, in context.

[Matthew 7:21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 1:12-13; John 6:44; Acts 26:18; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Hebrews 12:1-2; Titus 2:11-14; 1 Peter 2:24]

The Fruit of Faith

When we believe in Jesus Christ to be Lord and Savior of our lives, it is not just an acknowledgment of who he was and is, and of what he did for us in his death and resurrection. But it is surrender of our lives to God, to obey him, and to follow our Lord wherever he leads us. It is to repent of (die to) our sins so we can now walk in purity of devotion to our Lord in holy living. And this should be evidenced in our lives by how we live out our lives day by day, one day at a time, in the power of God, in fellowship with our Lord.

And if our faith in our Lord Jesus is genuine biblical faith, it should be shown by the things that we do and speak (or write) in life practice. We should be people of integrity (honesty, honor, uprightness) who practice righteousness (what God deems right in his eyes) and holiness and godly living. We should be those who make it our practice to speak truth to the people, and not lies. We should be those who love all people and so we do them no harm. And we should hate sin and lies and all that is vile (wicked, corrupt, and immoral).

We should also be those who honor those who fear the Lord. And who are they? They are all who have died to sin and who are walking in obedience to our Lord as a matter of life practice. They are all whose lives are surrendered to the Lord to do his will, who are serving him with their lives in doing what our Lord commands. They are those whose lives are also committed to sharing the message of the gospel with the people of the world wherever and whenever possible, in the power of God, by his grace.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 12:1-2; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; 2 Corinthians 5:10,15,21; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:19-39; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]

Who May Abide in God’s Temple?
An Original Work / July 27, 2026
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Now Abiding

An Original Work / January 31, 2012
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Walking with Him; have Him near me,
Brings me comfort, joy and healing.
Now abiding in His presence;
His words speaking, oh, how gently:
Speak conviction, inspiration,
And instruction in right living.

Hope and comfort Jesus brings you,
When you’re walking with Him daily.
Be His servant; share the gospel;
Be His witness of salvation.
Love your brothers and your sisters.
Share with them that Jesus loves them.

Talking daily with my Savior;
List’ning to Him while He teaches,
Draws me closer; get to know Him,
So that I can now obey Him.
Follow Him where’er He leads me.
Worship only Jesus, Savior.

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A Michigan man is suspected of fatally shooting his wife and six children and then setting their house on fire, before taking his own life, authorities said Monday, calling it an "unspeakable tragedy."

The children's father, 47-year-old Kristopher Karolkiewicz, died by suicide, and the deaths of his wife, 39-year-old Amanda Karolkiewicz, and their six children were ruled to be homicides, according to the sheriff's office.

"This is an unspeakable tragedy that we may never completely understand why it happened. But we'll do our best to find the answers and to honor the memory of those victims," Ottawa County Sheriff's Office Capt. Jake Sparks said during a press briefing on Monday.

The family's pets, including several dogs and at least one cat, also died in the fire, he said.

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The American Heart Association confirmed in a Monday email to News 8 that Kristopher Karolkiewicz had been employed there as a national vice president of sales and marketing between September 2023 and earlier this month. It said he worked remotely for its national headquarters in Dallas and never worked in local Michigan offices.

The organization would not say why his employment ended, telling News 8 it does not comment on personnel matters.

Please pray that if it is God's will the storms will miss us and no sirens will go off and that He will allow us to keep power. Thank you and God bless you. I ask in the name of Jesus. Carmen

A 20-year-old man from Edgewater is accused of making a terroristic threat against the South Causeway Bridge in New Smyrna Beach, which crosses the Indian River North, connecting New Smyrna Beach and the inlet.

Cimms: "OK I'm going to big picture this so I don't frame myself"
Cimms: "Right so bridge"
Cimms: "Needs to be stable"
Cimms: "How is it stable"
Cimms: "The legs"
Cimms: "What happens if the legs aren't stable
Cimms: "It falls"
Cimms: "You get where I'm going with it"
Cimms: "Your (sic) not stupid"

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Stolen from Daisy Day, as I think this is the bigger story from her post.

NYT: Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him​

Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.

When the Trump administration canceled more than $7.5 billion in Biden-era federal grants for clean energy projects in October, it framed the move as an urgent corrective to protect taxpayer funds from waste.

But it wasn’t true.

In little-noticed court documents, federal officials acknowledged this month that they had terminated the funding “based solely” on political criteria, targeting projects in states that were represented by Democrats and had voted for Kamala Harris, the party’s presidential nominee, in the 2024 election.

The admission showed how President Trump has weaponized the provision of federal education, energy, health, housing and infrastructure aid in his second term. Far from rooting out the sort of misspending that Mr. Trump sees as rife in Washington, the White House has instead sought to leverage the budget as a tool to assist its allies — or as a cudgel to hurt the president’s foes.

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To put this in greater context, President Biden's clean energy projects already favored red states. As a president of all Americans, he was not picking and choosing to favor voters who voted for him.

CF: link

The biggest winners of Biden’s green climate policies? Republicans.​

The Inflation Reduction Act, which contained the largest climate investment in US history, would “throw money at woke climate and social programs that won’t work — including over $350 billion for ‘Green New Deal’ initiatives,” Hudson said in a statement after IRA’s passage.

But Hudson – now the head of House Republicans’ campaign committee – is one of the members of Congress whose district has benefitted the most from the climate law and its massive investment in clean energy.

About $12.7 billion in private investment has been announced in Hudson’s district since the bill passed, the second-highest amount in the nation. Much of it is from Toyota expanding a gargantuan car battery plant that has tripled in size since it was first announced. The factory will span the length of 756 football fields and will spur 5,100 new jobs, the company estimates.

More than three quarters of announced clean energy investments are in Republican districts​

The district with the largest total announced investment is Louisiana Democratic Rep. Troy Carter's 2nd district, followed by Republican Rep. Richard Hudson's district in North Carolina, and then five GOP-held districts in Texas, according to an analysis by Rhodium Group and MIT. The top five announced investments are labeled in the map.​

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Meanwhile, of course, this is not the first time Trump has sought to specifically punish blue states.




and what may have been an early iteration of the OP

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Who is Jesus Faith Talks - Evangelist Mauricio Canales - Overview Statement - Discussion of Who Jesus Is
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Please pray that God will have mercy on us and keep the strong storms away from us and if it is His will we can keep power because of the heat. Please ask Him to guard our lives, keep trees and limbs up and protects our homes. Thank you and God bless you. I ask in the name of Jesus. Carmen

Peace in Christ.

We are to leave it all behind….all of the man-based things and all of that church “family” (brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children) and follow Him.

We follow Him out for His sake and the gospel’s as we hear the truth of the gospel and believe. Those we leave behind will not believe in the Truth and will persecute those who do. They will not receive the love of the Truth and be saved.

A man’s foes will be the members of his own household…his own church family that he once was a part of. Matthew 10:36. We show we love Him more than them when we leave. We confess Him before men.

Mar 10:28-30 KJV
(28) Then Peter began to say unto him, Lo, we have left all, and have followed thee.
(29) And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's,

We when we leave them behind, we shall receive now in this time others who also believe in the Word of Truth. We shall receive others who also will receive persecutions from their previous church families who will not believe.

Most translations such as the KJV have the wording (“and in the world to come eternal life”) mistranslated and not in its proper order as far as the arrangement of the words.

It should read: “and in the AGE the coming (PRESENT TENSE) AGE-LASTING life.”

The coming age-lasting life is NOW that we are to take hold of. It is for the duration of this present age before us.

(30) But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world (AGE) to come (the coming) eternal life (age-lasting life).

Just as the LORD commanded Abram to “get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house” we also must do and leave our church families behind.

He will show us a “land”….an earth…that we had not experienced before. We shall then receive the promises made to Abraham.

Gen 12:1-4 KJV
(1) Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
(2) And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:

In us all of the families of the “earth” (the word is ADAMAH) shall be blessed. The “Adamah” are the people of the outside world who do not know God and are sitting in deep spiritual darkness.

(3) And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth (Adamah) be blessed.
(4) So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.

We have a command from Him that is delivered to us to keep: “Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean; and I will receive you.” We must not turn away from the Holy Ito be separate for sanctification) Commandment delivered to us to keep. The man-based churches will NOT BELIEVE in what they hear....the hearing of the Word of Truth...and be saved. They will not receive the love of the Truth and be saved.

2Co 6:14-18 KJV
(14) Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
(15) And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
(16) And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
(17) Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
(18) And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

We shall then inherit the promises made to Abraham.

The earth then will flow with “milk and honey” rather than produce “thorns and thistles” towards us as it did when we had attended the man-based churches who are unclean. He brings us to that “land”…the earth that flows with milk and honey (good things)…to dwell in.

Lev 20:22-26 KJV
(22) Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out.

We are not to walk in the “manners” …that is, the ordinances or statutes…of the nation.

“Manners” = chûqqâh- Feminine of H2706, and meaning substantially the same: - appointed, custom, manner, ordinance, site, statute.

The man-based churches have their handwriting of ordinances (the “manners”) at the core of their church gatherings. We must leave it all behind. Do not walk anymore in their “manners.”

The man-based churches are all built upon/by their handwritings of which they keep and serve. They self-govern and judge themselves by them. ( such as “statements of faith, church constitutions and by-laws, etc.) They do this for themselves rather than have God be their King and Judge.

The man-based churches have copied the outside nations around them (who do not know God) who have put their own governing documents (their church “constitutions” for example). The outside nations do these things…and we must not copy them in this. They are then "IMAGES"...made in the likeness of the governing documents of the nations around us. We MUST NOT do these things. They are images.

We must not have these things in our church gatherings. They are an abomination and the glory of God has departed from those man-based church gatherings. It is image worship when we keep and serve them in our churches.

Our writing is within us as God has written His laws into our hearts and minds. The kingdom/government of God is WITHIN us and not “observed” by keeping external man’s handwritings of ordinances.

(23) And ye shall not walk in the manners (statutes) of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

We must leave it all behind so that we shall inherit the earth….an earth flowing with good things…with “milk and honey.”

(24) But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land that floweth with milk and honey: I am the LORD your God, which have separated you from other people.

We are to be separated from the unclean man-based churches whose ways are unclean. We must not keep company with them. We are “severed”…that is, divided…from them.

(25) Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.
(26) And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the LORD am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine.

We shall receive persecutions from the unclean man-based churches we leave behind. They will think it “strange” that we no longer “run” with them after their church things they revel it.

“abominable idolatries” = abominable IMAGE worshipping.

Their “images” are their church handwritings…their governing documents which are at the core of their “churches” that they keep and serve….worship.

They have copied the outside nations around them in this thing. They are “images” of what they see the nations around them doing as they copied them and placed them at the center of their gatherings. They self-govern and self-judge themselves with the “images” that they keep and serve. It is “image worshipping” that they are doing.

1Pe 4:3-4 KJV
(3) For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
(4) Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:

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During a cross-country road trip, my family set aside a full day to explore the area’s sanctuaries and venerate its relics. Our journey began with daily Mass at 8:30 a.m. at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Built between 1776 and 1795, the shrine served the growing 18th-century community along the Santa Fe River, just beyond the bustling Plaza at the end of the Santa Fe Trail.

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Pray by saying,"In Jesus Christ's Name, let intense rain quench the fires in France & Spain immediately":

All Praise & Thanks to Jesus Christ for allowing Gen-Z protesters in India to make their voices heard, however, lets pray that said protesters are guided by The Holy Spirit to uphold Christian concerns like prolife, traditional marriage, etc. :

Morning Prayers

Divinum Officium (EF)

Our Morning Offering – 27 July – Jesu Dulcis Memoria

The Morning Offering (OF)

Daily Quote...Saint John Chrysostom: “Afflications, ill health, illness, and the pains that our bodies experience are counted for the remission of our trespasses. They are the furnace in which we are purified.” - St. John Chrysostom

Feria (The Ninth Sunday after Pentecost) propers & commentary (EF)

St. Pantaleon, Martyr propers & commentary (EF)

Monday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time readings & commentary (OF)
Other Commemorations: St. Pantaleon, Martyr (RM)

Monday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time readings & commentary (OF)

Daily Gospel

The Precious BIood of Jesus – Short Meditations for July. July 27th — The Seventh Shedding of the Precious Blood

Saint Pantaleon of Nicomedia, Physician and Martyr

Saint Pantaleon, Physician & Martyr

Pope Saint Celestine I

Saints of the Day

Sermons for Everyday Living - St Pantaleon

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Please pray for my wife and I as we leave for Key West, FL this morning around 7:34 CST. We are embarking on our honeymoon for 6 days. Pray for good weather and safe flights. Thanks!

Psalm 12:1-4 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)


Too Many Lies

We live in a day and time, at least we do here in the USA, when so many people speak lies routinely. Our government heads lie to us, as does the media. Lawyers lie, as do pastors of “churches.” Lying seems so common place. Truth telling seems to be more in the rare category. For speaking what people want to hear tends to rule over speaking what they need to hear. Few, it seems, can be trusted to tell us the truth. And if you speak the truth, and not the lies, you might be treated like an outcast; as the unwanted.

So many pastors of “churches” are being trained to lie and to deceive and to trick and to scheme in order to get the results that they want. For so many of these modern-day “churches” are not the biblical body of Christ gathering together to encourage one another in our walks of faith, in obedience to our Lord. But they are businesses incorporated under (merged, partnered with) the state and with the world in unholy unions, which God forbids. And so many are, thus, diluting the gospel to appease and to pacify human flesh.

[Matthew 21:12-13; John 2:13-17; Acts 5:27-32; 1 Corinthians 1:10-13; 1 Corinthians 3:1-9; 2 Corinthians 6:14-18; Philippians 3:18-19; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22; Revelation 13:5-8; Revelation 18:1-5]

Do Not Partake

So, we are not to join in with them in their folly. We are not to partake of their delicacies. We are not to believe the lies which teach we can believe in Jesus and have all our sins forgiven and be on our way to heaven by lip service only. Far too many are teaching that God does not require that we deny self, die to sin (repent), and obey our Lord and his commands as necessary components of faith which saves. For they call that “works salvation,” which they say must be ignored in favor of sinful practices.

And they call that love. They call that kindness. They call that mercy. And they call that compassion. But it is not love to lie to people. It is not love to tell them that God does not require repentance and obedience to his commands. It is as clear as can be what all God requires of us if we read the Scriptures, and if we read them in the appropriate biblical context. Jesus Christ and his New Testament apostles made it very clear that we must deny self, die to sin (repent) and obey God in practice to have salvation from sin.

Psalm 12:6-8 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)


Words of God

Jesus Christ gave his life up for us on that cross to put our sins to death with him so that, by biblical faith in him, which is gifted to us from God, and which is not of our own flesh, we will now die with Christ to sin and walk with him in obedience to his commands as matter of life practice. We are now to follow our Lord in doing what he commands, in going where he sends us, and in being who he has called us to be, by his grace. He is now to be Lord (Owner-Master) of our lives and we are to obey his commands.

But, if we should believe the lies, instead, and if we should go our own way, doing what we want, without regard for what our Lord requires of us who profess his name, we will not have salvation from sin nor eternal life with God. For if we follow the world and the ways of the flesh and the philosophies of humans which give us excuses to justify habitual and deliberate sin against our Lord, that will lead us to hell, not to heaven. So, give your lives to Christ, obey his commands, and follow where he leads.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 12:1-2; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; 2 Corinthians 5:10,15,21; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:19-39; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]

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The Ransom

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Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Jesus paid the ransom so we’d be forgiven;
Purified from our sin so we’d be set free.
Crucified on a tree; took on him our sin.
Buried our sin with Him; rose in victory.
Jesus calls us to Him; asks that we flee from sin;
Obey His commandments; live eternally.

God our Father loves us, which is why He gave us
His Son to die for us on a cruel tree.
God created us to walk in fellowship
With Him daily trusting in His righteousness.
He has a plan for us to abide in His grace;
Be transformed in our hearts; live for him always.

Won’t you trust in Jesus? Be your Lord and Master?
He wants to forgive you, give you victory.
Over sin and yourself, Jesus set you free.
Daily walking with Him, live victoriously.
Invite Him in your heart. He’ll give you a new start.
Your old life behind you, a new creature be.

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There was a car accident. Christine, was airlifted to the Hospital, where she remains unconscious due to a brain hemorrhage. Their young daughter was airlifted to the Children’s Hospital and is fighting a spinal cord injury. Her husband also suffered a brain injury.

A man stepped through the bat-wing doors of a dusty 1900s saloon, boots clicking on the warped floorboards. He spotted a lawman hunched over a table, nursing a drink, badge glinting in the lamplight.

The stranger slid into the chair across from him.
“Suppose I told you I could counterfeit this silver dollar,” he said, placing the coin on the table, “without a minting press… and without a speck of silver.”

The lawman snorted. “I’d like to see that.”

Before the lawman could blink, another fellow — dressed plain as a farmhand — walked up and handed the stranger an uncirculated silver dollar. Same year. Same markings. Same shine. The stranger passed it to the lawman.

“Who was that?” the lawman asked, slipping the coin into his vest pocket.
“Just a business associate,” the stranger replied.

He pushed the original coin toward the lawman. “Buy me a whisky and we’ll talk.”
The lawman obliged. The stranger downed the glass in one smooth motion, wiped his mouth with the back of his hand, and said, “Check your pocket again.”
The lawman reached into his vest. His fingers brushed cloth, stitching, lint… but no coin. He checked the other pocket. Nothing. He stood, patting himself down,
confusion rising like the heat of the desert.

“It’s not there,” he muttered.

The stranger tipped his hat, stepped out into the evening dust, and vanished into the street. No one in town ever saw him again...